A
MAD MAN HOLLERED
Okete bayi ni wa re
Okete o! ba yi ni wa re o!
Oba’fa mule oda’fa
Oba’fa mule oda’fa o!
Ifa jigijigi ifa mo gboro kan
Ifa jigijigi o , ifa mo gboro kan o!
Okete bayi ni wa re
Okete o! ba yi ni wa re o!
Like a bat that has no eyes but still catches
its prey in the dark
I’ll keep my lover in the grave
Why?! You’ll ask
Because when man would die liberty would
perish, blood would be in the veins of roaches and the roaches would rise above
hate!
Mad man would palm the wine and pepper the
soup when he hears of his soldiers that fell into the enemy’s ditch
But mad man you’ve made no sense in all of
these
Mad man replies ‘when
I made sense you all though t I did but not anymore
Just before I
died I visited where I would be buried but even in death men are unequal
Men gone the way
yonder still conquer me
After they’ve
taken Ori Olokun and my Nok pieces
Okete bayi ni wa re
Okete o! ba yi ni wa re o!
Oba’fa mule oda’fa
Oba’fa mule oda’fa o!
A child lays
unstill in a room waiting to breathe the air of life
But mad man
snatches mother’s life for felony
‘Why must you
import flash torch lights?’
When snakes fight
they embrace
So call not an
infidel the maiden that pounds the king’s yam in a small mortar
Mad man has
thrown a cat among pigeons
Light hearted
health officers who sallies with a rod and ask occupiers to provide pails for
excrement
Then mad man
would approve the size of pails
Mad man lies by
day and night by day instructing that we must vote not the opposition else
he’ll pull the pipes that supply water
Okete bayi ni wa re
Okete o! ba yi ni wa re o!
Oba’fa mule oda’fa
Oba’fa mule oda’fa o!
Union jack
lowered then mad man hoisted new
Mad man makes
verbose many promises
Each time
cleaning his face with the edge of his wrapper and blows his nose into it
A sign that he is
a man and he won’t but lie again
Like a lamb that
runs as fast as his legs would take him we run
But mad man waits
patiently like a lion till we gallop unto his table
I am Mad man and
i see you are sad in the least and hurt in the worst yet I know you’ll again
make me king!
Mac t
